On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Mathieu Henri wrote: > > Glad to see there's finally a standard way to play sound. May I suggest > a few members for the Audio object: > > volume > Set/get the replay volume ( set by default to 100%, or 1.0, > so that the sound is replayed at its original volume ) > > pause() > Stop playing the sound at the current position. > > NB: It might require the addition of an optionnal boolean > argument in the play() method to specify if the Audio object > is played from the beginning or the current/paused position. > > onerror > An event listener that is invoked when an error event is fired > on the Audio object. > > playing ( or playback ) > a read only property returning true if the sound is being played > or false otherwise. Set by default to false. The play() method > sets this property to true. The pause() and stop() methods set > it to false.
These are now added (maybe under other names). > pitch ( or frequency ) > Set/get the replay frequency in Hz ( set by default to the > value in the header of the sound file ) > > panning > Set/get the panning ( set by default to the middle, be it 0 in > a [ -1; 1 ] range, or 0.5 in a [ 0, 1 ] range ). Given the complexity of the audio stuff now, I'd rather defer these to a future version. > Oh, and the description of the play() method is somewhat misleading. It > says the repeat count is set to 1, which suggests the sound will be > repeat'ed 1 time. Either the term 'repeat count' is not appropriate and > should be replaced by 'replay count', or the play() method should set it > to 0. This has been rewritten; please let me know if the new text is not ok. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
